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Ask MIT Climate: What would happen to the climate if we had much lower CO2 levels?

October 11, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Research

Earth split open in center showing inner structure layer-by-layer

Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth’s crust

October 9, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Ask MIT Climate: What is the risk that CO2 stored underground after carbon capture will escape again?

September 28, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Natural Hazards, Research

Photo of a power plant with two smokestacks in a desert area on a partly cloudy day.

Improving US air quality, equitably

September 27, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Health of the Planet, Research

A black NASA orb-shaped capsule in the Utah desert during daytime.

3 Questions: The first asteroid sample returned to Earth

September 25, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Research

An Amazonian village with about 20 huts that form a large a ring around an empty, brown, circular area. Lots of trees are around the village.

Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile “dark earth”

September 20, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

How forests can cut carbon, restore ecosystems, and create jobs

July 27, 2023

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Greg Fournier on Curiosity Unbounded, episode 3: Decoding the tree of life

July 17, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Life + Environments, Research

The North Sea via satellite. The dark blue water has swirls of teal, and Germany peeks out from the bottom right.

Study: The ocean’s color is changing as a consequence of climate change

July 12, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Climate, Faculty, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Radar image of a lake taken from high above Titan's surface shows liquid areas as dark blue and land areas as dark yellow.

Studying rivers from worlds away

July 10, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

An aerial view of Mauna Loa showing the volcano in pinks, yellows and purples.

New seismic imaging technique gives fresh look at Earth’s mantle

June 21, 2023

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research, Students + Postdocs

A helicopter drops water on a vast, smokey forest fire

Q&A: Are far-reaching fires the new normal?

June 9, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Health of the Planet, Natural Hazards, Research

Illustration has a black, rocky background, a large river forks off. A large greenfin darter is overlayed on the large river. The 3 forks each have smaller greenfin darters, each with a unique colorful glow.

River erosion can shape fish evolution, study suggests

May 25, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

3 cartoony green microbes ride a raft made of shell on a blue ocean. One microbe has a telescope to look ahead. A sign in the water says they are heading towards to the “Ocean.”

Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles

May 11, 2023

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

3 Questions: New Faculty Interview with Gaia Stucky de Quay

May 3, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

The meteorite is dark black and shiny, with a rough texture. A chip of the meteorite is next to it, and a cube says “1 CM” on it.

A message to meteorite hunters: Put down your magnets!

April 20, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Research

Aerial view shows a nuclear power plant, surrounded by lush green areas and water, with mountains in distance.

Study: Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution

April 10, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Health of the Planet, Research

A map shows a large red splotch with blurry yellow border, the ozone hole, on top of the South Pole, on decorative background.

Study: Smoke particles from wildfires can erode the ozone layer

March 8, 2023

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Health of the Planet, Research

A bright bluish light, which is debris, shoots across the black background, with light trailing behind it.

3Q: What we learned from the asteroid-smashing DART mission

March 2, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Photo of a row of smokestacks. Two are belching smoke into a cloudy blue sky.

Improving health outcomes by targeting climate and air pollution simultaneously

February 23, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Health of the Planet, Research